This was actually pretty amusing once things got rolling with that seagull completely destroying everyone in its path. Until that point, it was the kinda sprite animation that makes people hate sprite animation; just plain lazy...just a lifeless body bounding around. Mario's hat had more going for it as a static object, but the little man should be visibly scrambling and hopping along his way, however briefly it would be. A giant bird ripped WORLD 1-1 apart, surely adding some hustle & hop frames to Mario wouldn't take long.

I was reading a book in my college library and I tried some of the effects from chapter 10 (fake 3-d) and it worked, I am now making a full game of this and I just used this to test the reaction of fake 3-d.
Thanks for the comments :D